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The swoop, he said, was planned after the police had realised that crime incidents in the area were going up after the Christmas festivities.

After the Christmas and New Year celebrations, Mr Tetteh said, police stations in the division had been recording increasing cases of bag snatching, burglary, petty stealing, robbery and drug peddling.

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During the operation, he added, “some quantities of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp and some tremor drugs were found and seized from the hide-outs of the suspected criminals”.